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Sajjan Kumar Fugitive From
Justice, But When Will He Be Behind Bars?
24
February 2010
NEW DELHI: Noose
is tightening around mass killer Sajjan Kumar, one of the top
politicians of India's ruling Congress party... |
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25 years later, India's court says conduct fast trial into genocide cases
10
February 2010
New Delhi : The
Delhi High Court has this week directed the lower court to complete
the trial of all pending cases of 1984 anti-Sikh genocide cases,
including that of... |
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Sajjan Kumar summoned in 1984 pogrom case
3
February 2010
NEW DELHI:
Twenty-five years after 12 Sikhs were murdered in Sultanpuri and
Delhi Cantonment in the 1984 genocide of the Sikhs, a city court
last Monday issued... |
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Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler are all over
the complaints
6
January 2010
The 1984
anti-Sikh carnage spread through 80 cities of 18 states, including
the national capital, which claimed the highest number of
victims. Though official figures put... |
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CBI
gets green signal to move against Sajjan
6
January 2010
NEW DELHI:
Jarnail Singh’s shoe flung across India’s Home Minister P
Chidambaram had created enough pressure of worldwide shame over
denial of justice to the Sikhs... |
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He is dead, but his words are enough to
hang Sajjan Kumar
6
January 2010
Chandigarh:
For Gurcharan Singh, left to live a hell like existence after being
thrown alive in a burning truck in the 1984 carnage, death came
torturously slow and... |
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How many witnesses the CBI needs to put Sajjan Kumar behind bars?
6
January 2010
Chandigarh:
The sun is about to set on the first day of the new decade and it’s
his mother Jaspal Kaur’s birthday, but Harvinder Singh Kohli has not
found time even to... |
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CBI clean chit in rape and murder case may rock Kashmir again
16
December 2009
Srinagar: The
rape and murder case of two women in Shipian in Kashmir valley has
taken a new turn altogether as the CBI has given a cleamn chit to
four police officers... |
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Indian Parliament forced to discuss Genocide of Sikhs
16
December 2009
NEW DELHI: Shamed into making a statement on the floor of the
Parliament after an Independent Sikh MP, Tarlochan Singh, pressed a
Calling Attention Motion in... |
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High Court upholds conviction in 1984
anti-Sikh riots case
9
December 2009
NEW DELHI: The
Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of three accused in an
anti-Sikh pogrom case of 1984 in the East Delhi area of Trilokpuri... |
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Women in 1984
18
November 2009
An open
invitation is being extended by the Sikh Students Association of UC
Berkeley and Jakara Movement for a seminar on ‘Women in 1984’ on
Saturday, November 21st from 12—4 PM on the Berkeley campus led by
Dr. Cynthia K. Mahmood, Navkiran Kaur... |
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1984 is Unforgettable
11
November 2009
Des
Plaines, IL: Last Saturday, Dr. Cynthia Keppley Mahmood from the
University of Notre Dame was honored with “hwA dw nwArw” award by
IFCAPS in recognition... |
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'1984 accounts scattered
all over
11
November 2009
SAS
NAGAR: Stories of 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms have scattered all over.
With thousands dead came the inevitable migration of families of
Sikhs in Delhi and... |
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British MP
makes Tytler tuck his tail
11
November 2009
LONDON:
For months now, Narendra Modi, he of the Gujarat massacre of Muslims
fame, has been reeling under the shame of a politician who has
been... |
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1984 Pogroms: AISSF decides to file PILs in
High Courts
4
November 2009
NEW DELHI:
Holding placards and with tyres slung around their necks as a mark
of protest, members of the All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF)
took out a... |
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Marching on the hill
4
November 2009
Hundreds of Sikhs converged on Washington DC Capitol Hill on
November 1, 2009 as part of the Justice March, first gathering for a small
rally in front of the Lafayette... |
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Sikh Quom Sends Message With Total Punjab
Shutdown
4
November 2009
25
years after Delhi’s roads lay strewn with half-burnt, mutiliated
bodies of thousands of Sikhs and a community’s faith in the Indian Political
Establishment lay... |
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Deathly Silence
28
October 2009
A funeral
procession of a Sikh man greeted us when we entered the main street
of Sultanpuri in Delhi. Life became a simile. Sultanpuri was death
personified. The... |
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Their sworn testimony
28
October 2009
Some of the most respected names who were in Delhi have stated
the truth, the sworn truth, time and again, but the Indian
Government is keen on letting go of the... |
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BANTA and SANTA are back
28
October 2009
This is the Santa and Banta
you do not know. This is the Santa and Banta the Indian states wants to
forget. This is the Santa and Banta you will not see on your... |
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25 years later, govt finds peanuts for genocide victims
16
September 2009
NEW DELHI:
Twenty-five years after the tragedy, the Indian government has
decided to extend the rehabilitation package to the victims of the
1984 anti-Sikh genocide... |
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Sikh organisations decide to pursue “untraced” cases of 1984 carnage
9
September 2009
CHANDIGARH: At least two organisations of the Sikh community and
some lawyers have taken upon themselves the task of pursuing the
cases related to the... |
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3 in jail as Indian court slams govt, police for 1984 pogrom
2
September 2009
NEW DELHI: Shaming the Indian establishment, and not excluding the
law and order and teh justice dispensing mechanisms, a Delhi court
awarded life imprisonment... |
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One by one, They
die
Pogrom continues by other means as India frustrates justice seekers
15
July 2009
NEW DELHI: One by one, they will all die. Men and women who watched
blood-thirsty mobs led by India's top political leaders hunt, track, beat,
kick, loot and burn.... |
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Sikh Nation clings to Identity
Consciousness
10
June 2009
25 years in the history of a nation have been observed in the
homeland Punjab and worldwide in the Sikh Diaspora. The pain,
anguish and bewilderment of the Sikh... |
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1984 - A Remembrance with Poems
for Peace
27
May 2009
New
Delhi: In a poignantly titled workshop ‘Poems for Peace’ at
Guru
Harkrishan
Public School
in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, last month, United Sikhs... |
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Worst comes out now: CBI report
was changed
29
April 2009
Tarun
Tejpal, best selling author and prime force behind India's foremost
investigative venture Tehelka, has distilled it to three basic
inferences: a) The false self-image... |
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Inescapable Shadow of 1984
22
April 2009
Whoever
wins elections, the shadow of 1984 is going to haunt the people of this
country for times immemorial... |
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The flung shoe goes far, exposes media too
15
April 2009
NEW DELHI: It is surprising what the Indian media can afford not to
tell. Jarnail Singh, the world's gentlest shoe thrower, tossed his
Reebok tennis sneaker at India's... |
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A shoe goes far, and can even me mightier than a pen at times
8 April 2009
Much before
Jarnail Singh was pissed off by the perfunctory replies of India's
Home Minister and decided that it was time to make a statement
that... |
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Did he miss, really? But he has another shoe
8 April 2009
By now, you know
most of the details. And most people will recognize Jarnail Singh
from across the road. A simple act of daring, a journalist crossing... |
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Tytler set to walk free as Cong
courts shame again
1 April 2009
NEW
DELHI: Hous after this WSN edition will reach the readers' hands, a
court in India will open the sealed cover in which the CBI, India's
top sleuthing agency, has... |
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Shameless Congress Gives Tickets to Tytler, Sajjan Kumar
25 March 2009
NEW
DELHI: Negating in one fell swoop whatever sympathy it might have
gained from the Sikhs by making Dr Manmohan Singh its prime
ministerial candidate once... |
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Orissa sets up panel for 1984
victims
21 January 2009
BHUBANESHWAR: Orissa government has set up a special
committee to compensate victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh massacres in
the state at a time ... |
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What elese did you expect of the CBI
21 January 2009
NEW DELHI: Not
that anything different was expected of India's
CBI. Its intentions in pursuing the case against killers mobs leader
Jagdish Tytler were always doubtful... |
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25 years later, Punjab moves to
regularise housing for 1984 victims
21 January 2009
CHANDIGARH: THE
PUNJAB government has decided to regularise unauthorised occupation
of houses and booths by eligible 1984 riot victims ... |
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Sikh
protests in US jolt India’s CBI as witnesses depose
31 December
2008
SAN FRANCISCO: Months after telling the court that a key witness in
a case against former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler was simply not
traceable... |
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CBI sleuths in US to record 1984 genocide
witnesses' statements
24 December
2008
NEW YORK: Months after India's top sleuthing agency, the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told an Indian court looking into the
role of former Indian Minister Jagdish Tytler... |
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Phoolka seeks support of
British MPs for November 1984
anti-Sikh criminals
31
October 2008
WESTMINSTER,
LONDON: On the eve of the 25th year of the anti-Sikh
pogrom against Sikhs in Delhi and other parts of India, activist
advocate and author... |
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24 yrs after massacre, Indian army admits 34
soldiers were killed
29
October 2008
PATIALA: For the
first time, and after 24 years of the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi and
across India, the Indian army has admitted that 34 soldiers were
killed... |
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Tytler’s arrest warrants out
11 September 2008
LUDHIANA: As
Jagdish Tytler failed to appear in a defamation case filed by
lawyer-activist H.S. Phoolka, the court of Magistrate K.K. Bansal,
today issued warrants for his arrest.... |
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These four had burnt two Sikhs alive,
but a court had let them off
27
August 2008
24 years ago, these four men burnt two
Sikhs alive in Delhi, and then walked free because a court said the
victims complained too late. Now, the High Court has sent them to a
life in jail, saying the crime was too ghastly.
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1984: Delhi government gets it from court
30
April 2008
NEW DELHI:
Shamelessness has become the hallmark when it comes to dealing
with 1984 genocide cases’...
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1984 massacre victims: Probe brings out total mess, apathy of regime
30
April 2008
LUDHIANA: Bogus people drawing up claims for compensation,
posing as 1984 anti-Sikh massacre victims, a corrupt administration clearing
their... |
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Tytler status report soon
26
March 2008
NEW DELHI: India's
top sleuthing bureau, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),
that at one stage seemed in a hurry to let Sikh massacre accused... |
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24 years later, HC is jolted by plight of 1984
genocide victim
19
March 2008
NEW DELHI: Jolted by the
description of the plight of a widow, whose husband was burnt alive during
1984 anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi, the Delhi High Court... |
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Yet another witness ready to expose Tytler
20 February 2008
CHANDIGARH: Giani
Surinder Singh, whose pictures taken by a hidden camera by a private
TV channel last month... |
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Babbar now says CBI under pressure, so he won't depose
6 February 2008
New Delhi: A Sikh
leader, Gurcharan Singh Babbar, has refused to appear before the CBI
for recording his statement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot... |
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83-yr-old travels from Canada to tell Indian court how his son was killed by
goons in 1984 pogrom
6 February 2008
NEW DELHI: He is
83 now. That is pretty old. In 1984, he was around 60. That is when blood
thirsty mobs descended upon his house... |
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Sajjan Kumar incited mobs to kill Sikhs, says
Gurcharan Singh
30 January 2008
CHANDIGARH: "WE EXIST, You just don't
see us" was the searing frontpage headline in a recent edition of
the World Sikh News while bringing... |
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WE EXIST! You just don't see us!
16 January 2008
NEW DELHI: When must a nation hang its head in shame? When a man
thousands know, believe and say was part of a blood-thirsty communal
massacre is made a minister?... |
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Sikhs form inquiry panel on 1984 genocide
9 January 2008
Amritsar: Several Sikh organizations have formed a panel for
probe into the 1984 genocide, given the Central Government and CBI
delay on the... |
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And The Alarm Would Go, One, Two, Cha-Cha-Cha
9 January 2008
On October 31, 1984, I was 27 years old and I had been teaching
history at Jamia Millia Islamia for just over a year. I was living
with my parents at the... |
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Siropa to Bachchan angers Sikh organizations
2 Januuary 2008
AMRITSAR: Hindi film actor Amitabh
Bachchan, along with wife Jaya, son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya,
paid obeisance....
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Court asks Indian govt why some ’84 victims
26 December
2007
New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court has asked the Indian Government as well as the government of the
national capital Delhi to explain why compensation... |
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In 1947, it was my mother. In ‘84, It was me
19 December, 2007
Pali Grewal, 70, began her life in a Punjab which was eventually
partitioned; her teen years were spent internalizing what it meant
to be a refugee. As a grown woman she married an IAS officer,... |
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Media and
a gritty witness shame India judiciary to act
19 December, 2007
NEW DELHI: Shame
came haunting the Indian justice dispensing system in which the rulers, the
law enforcement agencies... |
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SGPC installs Sant's portrait in Sikh Museum
5 December, 2007
AMRITSAR: Every year, without a
single exception, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale's great contribution in
jolting the Sikh community out of its stupor... |
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When one man stood up to stop the earth from shaking
23 November, 2007
The WSN is
proud that it was the first newspaper to break the story about the release
of the remarkable book, When A Tree Shook Delhi, on October 31... |
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Lost In History: 1984 Reconstructed
21 November, 2007
Lost In History: 1984 Reconstructed Lost In
History: 1984 Reconstructed is authored... |
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Amu's just released DVD includes deleted
scenes too!
7 November, 2007
If you missed it in the theaters, here’s
your chance to see this groundbreaking and controversial film based
on the 1984... |
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Delhi’s Four Darkest Days
7 November, 2007
The
capital awoke to a foreboding calm,
A false peace foretold an exploding bom b; |
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1984, New Delhi: did anything happen
7 November, 2007
It was today, 23 years ago, that the vengeful, violent horror
unleashed against Sikhs in New Delhi following the assassination of
Indira Gandhi slowly... |
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City of Djinns: A Photo Essay
31 October,
2007
For the Sikhs, Delhi is indeed a 'City of Djinns', as labelled by
noted writer William Dalrymple..., New York. ‘It was still... |
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Scam of lakhs in Sikh pogrom relief
31 October, 2007
Bokaro: A scam in
anti-Sikh riot relief has been unearthed in Bokaro, in which more than Rs 71
lakh has alleged been siphoned off in one case... |
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Nishkam: Service is the only motto
31 October, 2007
At the
tender age of seven years and some months, the eighth Guru of the
Sikhs, Guru Harkrishan, treated patients when a small pox epidemic
struck Delhi... |
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Dal Khalsa asks SGPC, DSGMC to halt
politicising issue
31 October, 2007
AMRITSAR: Dal Khalsa
has said it was "highly anguished" at the unending politicalisation of the
issue of carrying and movement of Guru Granth Sahib... |
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Has Anything Changed?
31 October, 2007
"I ask you to accept
my word and the Resolution of the Congress that it will not betray a
single individual much less a community. Let God be the witness of
the bond that binds me and... |
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Unless we have blood which does not boil
31 October, 2007
One quick glance at this edition of the
World Sikh News, and your blood will boil. One quick read of the
first person accounts of the November 1984 riots... |
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Pogrom victims to protest at SC
31 October, 2007
NEW DELHI: The
victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots will stage a protest in front of the
Supreme Court on October 31 demanding punishment for perpetrators... |
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Tytler clean chit goes for a six, key witness ready to
testify
31
October, 2007
Jasbir
Singh from the USA, a crucial eyewitness of genocide of Sikhs, allegedly
masterminded by Jagdish Tytler, senior Congress leader from Delhi, has now
offered himself to... |
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Six get jail for cheating 1984 pogrom victim Sikhs
8 August, 2007
New Delhi: Six people were sent to varying terms
of rigorous imprisonment in jail by a court here after it was proven that
they had.... |
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Officer who identified Sant Bhindranwale's body is
dead
11 July, 2007
Jalandhar: Apar Singh Bajwa (69), a
retired IPS officer, whose testimony had played a crucial role in settling
the controversy... |
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Sikhs lose a good friend in Chandrashekhar as former
premier dies at 80
11 July, 2007
New Delhi: Of the very very few friends that the
Sikh community had among the non-Sikh leaders at the federal level... |
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Advocate Phoolka Speaks on the Struggle for Justice in
India
20 June, 2007
San Antonio, Texas: On the evening of 15 June
2007, Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI) hosted the Senior Supreme Court
Advocate of India... |
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In step with martyrdom...we die before we fall
20 June, 2007
Death at the altar of religious commitment is a prized possession
of the Sikh people. We love death which comes in the course of
fulfillment... |
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Anti-Sikh Pogroms in India & the Struggle for Justice
13 June 2007
“Many people complained that, in some cases, the
police were not merely hanging back, but giving active ... |
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Punjab media skips Op Bluestar
6 June, 2007
The Punjabi language mass circulation newspaper
'Ajit' which carries the slogan 'Punjab Di Awaz' on its masthead everyday,
did not publish a single word... |
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An Armour of Lies
6 June, 2007
Many historians say that in
1915, the
Ottoman Empire
was responsible for the death of a million Armenians in an organized
campaign of genocide. But... |
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Day after they burnt the husband, mobs returned to
kill son and son-in-law
28 March 2007
NEW DELHI: One day, the mob burnt alive her
husband. Next day it returned to kill her son and son-in-law. Indian
establishment remained apathetic... |
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Sant Longowal had surrendered, claims Indian Army
officer
21 March, 2007
Amritsar: Twenty-three years after the
heinous act of Operation Bluestar, an Indian army officer who participated
in the attack.... |
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After 7 judges' refusal, Delhi HC admits appeal
against Sajjan verdict
7 March 2007
New Delhi: In 1984, they were killed. In 2002,
the court acquitted the accused. In 2003, the CBI appealed against
acquittal... |
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Sikh leaders coronate Indira assassin as ‘great
martyr’
1 November, 2006
JALANDHAR: Much to the embarrassment of
the ruling Congress, Sikh leaders conferred the honorific of “great martyr”
on Beant Singh.... |
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Vigils across the globe are India’s shame writ large
25 October 2006
LONDON: As the Sikh community marks
the 22nd anniversary of the November 1984 planned massacre of Sikhs in Delhi
and elsewhere... |
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Worldwide Vigils for Justice for Anti Sikh Pogroms
Victims
Over the past and forthcoming weeks, the Sikh
community in different parts of the world are gathering in city centers to
remember those... |
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Sikhs across globe to mark November pogrom anniversary
with vigils
LONDON: As the Sikh community marks the 22nd anniversary of the
November 1984 planned massacre of Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere... |
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